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Equipment => Bats => Bat Care => Topic started by: Kulli on August 19, 2010, 10:09:13 PM

Title: Dowling for repairing bats
Post by: Kulli on August 19, 2010, 10:09:13 PM

I have a bat thats cracked front to back through the toe but it's only gone ~80mm up, I was planning to drill it and glue in a bit of dowling but I wondered what the standard wood used for dowling bats was?

Bat's a fairly cheap (and old) CA so not worth sending off but I've done well with it so thought I'd give a DIY repair a go.

Title: Re: Dowling for repairing bats
Post by: hit4six on August 19, 2010, 10:17:33 PM

Any woodworking shop will sell hardwood dowel, which is what you require. 6mm dowel is what I use.

Title: Re: Dowling for repairing bats
Post by: Kulli on August 19, 2010, 10:28:28 PM

Any hardwood in particular, I've got mahogany ones in various sizes kicking about but not much else.

I reckoned somehwere between 5 and 10mm would be about right so cheers for the advice.